Costs 'too great' to fix Ripley Clock

The Rowell's clock has been a meeting point for courting couples in Ripley for many years - unfortunately, it has stopped.

The clock's been there since the 1970s, and to get it back up and running is going to cost about £8,000.

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Currently, it's built onto the SmartMove Homes building, where the directors have come under fire, despite not owning the clock.

The directors, David and Nicola Lancaster said it would be great to get it working again, but it's too expensive.

"The quotes are to take the clock down, strip it to it's bare bones and then reconfigure it, and re-modernise it internally, then put it back up with scaffolding...we've tried everything, the costs are too great." Nicola said.

The BBC has attempted to approach the owner of the building, but had no success.

Cannabis farm 'largest found in city'

Two brothers who produced four thousand cannabis plants in a former Nottingham factory have each been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

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Mohammed Anwar and Mohammed Imran - both of St George's Rise in Bradford - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce cannabis between 1 June and 6 August last year at a hearing in Nottingham yesterday.

Police discovered what they described as the "largest ever grow" found in the city inside the former paper mill.

It's believed the drugs found carried a street value between £1m-£3.5m.

Det Insp Gareth Harding, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "It was an industrial scale operation that would have yielded an incredible amount of drugs... I hope this serves as a warning to other criminal gangs that think Nottingham is a place that they would like to set up operations."

'Unsafe' levels of egg found in takeaways

The county council trading standards officers took samples from 12 Chinese takeaways across the county and in some cases, meals contained levels of egg protein 470 times the safe level for an allergy sufferer.

Cabinet member for health and communities, Cllr Carol Hart said: "It's really important that all food outlets stick to strict rules, and ensure that people are being served what they have asked for - the consequences to people unknowingly eating food they are allergic to can be really serious."

University students to give free legal advice

De Montfort University is to help people who require legal aid by offering a new service that will be free to clients.

The De Montfort University Legal Advice Centre will allow students along with tutors to provide the service to help with all legal matters using strict, tried and operational rules.

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Law students Sam Glover and Anisa Khan told BBC Radio Leicester it helps prepare them for life after university.

"We're final year students - so this provides a bit of experience and shows us real-life situations," Anisa said.

Dr Aurelien Portuese is senior lecturer in law at the university, he says: "Advisers are there to help support the students to give this advice, obviously students need to stick to a code of ethics - but they'll be learning throughout."